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Paul Verhoeven Films Ranked
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Basic Instinct, benedetta, black book, business is business, Elle, flesh and blood, Hollow Man, Katie Tippel, Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop, Sci-fi, Showgirls, Soldier of Orange, spetters, Starship Troopers, the 4th man, Total Recall, Turkish delight, World Cinema
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Review: Love & Friendship (2016)
It’s Jane Austen, but not quite as we know it. Whit Stillman’s LOVE & FRIENDSHIP adapts one of the titanically influential novelist’s lesser-known and unfinished stories (originally titled LADY SUSAN) and the result is a film that is both delicate … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Chloë Sevigny, Comedy, Film, Historical Drama, James Fleet, Jane Austen, Jemma Redgrave, Justin Edwards, Kate Beckinsale, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship, Morfydd Clark, Movies, Romance, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, Tom Bennett, Total Recall, Underworld, Whit Stillman
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Review: The Martian (2015)
Almost Ridders, almost. This is undoubtedly the best thing Ridley Scott has produced in over a decade. For me though, THE MARTIAN doesn’t quite justify the plaudits it has received, but yeah it’s good. That’s pretty much it. You want … Continue reading
10 Years, 10 Spectacular Sci-fi Films (2005-2014)
Science fiction has become a film genre increasingly derivative and dispiritingly inconsistent in quality in recent years. 2012’s TOTAL RECALL was a terrible remake and PROMETHEUS was arguably guilty of cheapening its own source material, the ALIEN series, by existing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Garland, Alfonso Cuarón, Alien, Alive in Joberg, Andy Serkis, Aubrey Plaza, Ben Burtt, Bong Joon-ho, Children of Men, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Colin Trevorrow, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Danny Boyle, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, District 9, Film, Firefly, Fox, Inception, Interstellar, Joss Whedon, Jurassic World, Looper, Mad Max, Mark Duplass, Movies, Neill Blomkamp, Pixar, Predestination, Prometheus, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Safety Not Guaranteed, Sarah Snook, Sci-fi, Serenity, Sharlto Copley, Snowpiercer, Spierig Brothers, Sunshine, Total Recall, WALL-E
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Review: Surrogates (2009)
SURROGATES suffers from the same problem that a lot of middling sci-fi films suffer from (besides being derivative), namely that it has a solid and interesting central premise which doesn’t hold up to much, if any, additional scrutiny. It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Willis, Film, Film noir, I, In Time, James Cromwell, Jonathan Mostow, Minority Report, Movies, Radha Mitchell, Robot, Rosamund Pike, Sci-fi, Star Trek: First Contact, Surrogates, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Matrix, Total Recall, Ving Rhames
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Remake Victim: Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven is an underrated filmmaker in Hollywood. Many think of him as simply a purveyor of trash, and it is true that he’s the man responsible for SHOWGIRLS and BASIC INSTINCT. But the Dutchman is also behind three of the smartest, most important American science-fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Basic Instinct, Colin Farrell, Film, Hollow Man, José Padilha, Len Wiseman, Movies, Paul Verhoeven, Remake, RoboCop, Sci-fi, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Total Recall
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